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Ask a Wildlife Biologist: Why do moose lick cars?

Denali National Park, Alaska, United States

Vehicles accumulate dirt, which has minerals, and minerals are hard to come by in the environment during winter. Salt could certainly be one of the minerals they seek as sodium is a driver of appetite, but it is possible it could be another type of mineral they’re after—hard to say for sure without getting a profile of the dirt.


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Lick marks rear truck panel
Photo by Kristin Denryter